Certain ideas of mine have no exact English words with which to express them. In the absence of an exact word I tend to use the closest, most poetic word. Since my usage of the words sufficiently differs from what people commonly think when they hear the words, I felt that a lexicon was in order. My definitions are crafted to include but expand ( Read more... )

You know she's a keeper when...

...You can be your dorkiest self around her and she finds it adorable.

...She genuinely finds it romantic when you sing Mr. Bungle's Girls of Porn to her ( Read more... )

As I was browsing a copy of the The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, I came upon a scene that just begged to be rewritten. (The original is on page 294 of the particular copy that I read, in the chapter titled The Seeing Hand.) The godlike Bastian has a gorgeous woman who foolishly threatened to kill him throw herself at his feet, pledging her ( Read more... )

We started onto the forested hiking trail into Boynton Canyon after nightfall. I would have preferred to have used only the illumination of the full moon, but cloud cover made it so that I had to use a flashlight occasionally to ensure that we were on the correct trail. We eventually made it to the red mountainous rock structure that we were ( Read more... )

Speeding through curvy mountain roads in the foggy dark of night with harsh music blaring is quite an adrenaline rush. Everyone should have such an experience at least once in their life. It's like playing a racecar videogame, except if you crash there's no Reset button. I would actually take my eyes off the road long enough to glimpse the ( Read more... )

In its most raw form, creation is totally random and chaotic. A notion of quality is then required to differentiate the patterns that emerge from chaos. Within a sapient mind, imagination is the fundamental creation mechanism for thought-forms. At its deepest layer imagination is chaotic, and slightly above that is a subconscious layer that we ( Read more... )

The evolution of any system towards a higher state of quality requires three mechanisms: the creation of new patterns, the preservation of patterns of highest quality, and the destruction of patterns of lowest quality. I am fond of pointing out that hundreds of years ago the Hindus deified the mechanisms of systemic evolution as Brahma the Creator ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, humans lived in harmony with the Earth. Then in Mesopotamia a culture decided that it was going to conquer the world. They brutally expanded their cultural empire by either forcing their neighbors to assimilate into their culture or by outright slaughtering their neighbors. Over the course of ten thousand years this cultural ( Read more... )

Due to how stubbornly self-absorbed and short-sighted humans are, I believe that an apocalypse is inevitable. Our consumption of resources and the damage that we inflict upon this planet will eventually accrue to the point where the very survival of our entire species upon this planet will come into jeopardy. At that point humans will viciously ( Read more... )

Have you ever had those moments when you just feel that you do not belong in this world? ...That this world is just too fucked-up to be real? Everyone knows that there is something wrong with this world, with us humans, but how many people realize that the entire Earth was once a nearly Edennic paradise to our species? Eden was real, in a manner ( Read more... )